100 classic quotes from 24 Nobel Prize winners in literature, each of which is a reference to life. Whichever sentence you like, just remember it.

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, he is an outstanding modern British realistic dramatist and a world-famous language master who is good at humor and satire.

1. There are two tragedies in life. One is despair; the other is complacency.

2. If you want to get married, get married. If you want to be single, stay single. You will all regret it in the end.

3. Real leisure does not mean doing nothing, but the freedom to do things that interest you.

4. The lessons of history tell us that people will not learn lessons from historical experience.

5. A rational person should change himself to adapt to the environment. Only those who are irrational will want to change the environment to adapt to themselves. But history is created by the latter kind of people.

Tagore (1861-1941)

Rabindranath Tagore, a famous Indian poet and litterateur. In 1913, he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali".

6. Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves.

7. The world kisses me with pain and wants me to repay it with songs.

8. When you cry for missing the sun, you will also miss the stars again.

9. Only those who have experienced hellish hardships can develop the power to create heaven; only fingers with blood flowing through them can create the ultimate sound in the world.

10. Even if you are sad, don’t frown, because you don’t know who will fall in love with your smile.

Russell (1872-1970)

Bertrand Russell was a twentieth-century British philosopher, mathematician, logician, and historian. He was an atheist or agnostic. He was also one of the most famous and influential scholars and pacifist social activists in the West in the last century. In 1950, Russell won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his "diverse and important works and his continuous pursuit of humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." ". His representative works include "The Road to Happiness" and "History of Western Philosophy".

11. War does not decide who is right, only who stays.

12. A beggar will not be jealous of a millionaire, but he will certainly be jealous of a beggar with a higher income.

13. It is not a waste of time if you can have fun while wasting it.

14. If you get angry when you hear an opinion that is contrary to yours, it shows that you have subconsciously felt that your opinion is not well-founded. If someone insisted that two plus two equals five, you would feel pity rather than anger.

15. The problem with this world is that smart people are full of doubts, while fools are convinced.

Churchill (1874-1965)

16. Success is from failure to failure without changing enthusiasm.

17. Optimists see opportunities in every crisis, and pessimists see crises in every opportunity.

18. Perseverance does not mean that we are really strong enough, but that we have no choice.

19. If you stopped and threw a stone at every dog ??that barked at you, you would never reach your destination.

20. If you don’t do a little more today than you did yesterday, then what’s the point of tomorrow.

Hemingway (1899-1961)

21. Life always leaves us bruised and bruised, but in the end, those injured places will definitely become our strongest places.

22. It takes us two years to learn to speak, but it takes us sixty years to learn to shut up. Most of the time, the more we talk, the further we distance ourselves from each other and the more conflicts we have.

23. Being better than others is not noble. True nobility should be better than yourself in the past.

24. Now is not the time to think about what is missing, it is time to think about what you can do with what you have.

25. The world is so beautiful that it is worth fighting for. I only agree with the second half.

Camus (1913-1960)

Albert Camus, a well-known French novelist, essayist and playwright, a master of existential literature and the originator of the "philosophy of the absurd" Representative figures. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "enthusiastic and calm elucidation of contemporary issues raised to human conscience." He was one of the youngest Nobel Prize-winning writers in history.

26. Don’t walk behind me, because I may not lead the way; don’t walk in front of me, because I may not follow; please walk beside me and be my friend.

27. All great actions and thoughts have a humble beginning.

28. We rarely trust people who are better than us and would rather avoid interacting with them. Instead, we often confide in people who are similar to us and who share our weaknesses. We do not wish to correct our weaknesses, we only wish to receive compassion and encouragement.

29. The distance between my soul and me is so far away, but my existence is so real.

30. The important thing is not to cure, but to live with the pain.

Marquez (1927-2014)

31. The past is false, memory is a road with no return, and all past springs cannot be restored, even the most fanatical and passionate In the final analysis, faithful love is just a fleeting reality, and only loneliness is eternal.

32. What really matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.

33. We are on this eternal journey of life, running through ups and downs, and reaching nirvana in setbacks. Our whole body is filled with sorrow, and pain is everywhere. We are tired, but there is no way to stop; we are bitter, but there is no way to avoid it.

34. Everyone seems very lonely. They try their best to relieve their loneliness in their own way. In fact, they are still continuing their loneliness. Loneliness is a curse imposed by nature on people who live in groups. Loneliness is the only outlet for loneliness.

35. Life has never existed independently of loneliness. Whether we are born, we grow, we fall in love, or we succeed or fail, until the end, loneliness exists in the corner of life like a shadow.

Romain Rolland (1866-1944)

Romain Rolland, thinker, litterateur, critical realist writer, music critic, and social activist. Winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was a famous French humanitarian writer in the first half of the 20th century. The characteristics of his novels are summarized as "writing novels with music".

36. There is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life.

37. Most people die in their twenties or thirties, because after this age, they are just shadows of themselves, and they spend the rest of their lives imitating themselves, day after day. , more mechanical and more pretentious, repeating what they did, thought, loved and hated in their lifetime.

38. A person’s character determines his fate. If you like to maintain your character, then you have no right to refuse your opportunities.

39. There are some things you cannot tell others, some things you do not need to tell others, some things you cannot tell others at all, and some things you will regret immediately even if you tell others. of.

40. Blessed are those who have nothing, because they will gain everything!

Hesse (1877-1962)

Hermann Hesse, German writer and poet. He received many literary honors throughout his life, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He loves music and painting. He is a wandering, lonely and reclusive poet. Most of the works take the life of ordinary citizens as their themes, expressing nostalgia for the past era and also reflecting some of the despair of people at the same time. His major works include "Peter Kamenzin" and "Steppenwolf".

41. Life is very lonely. No one can understand another person, everyone is lonely.

42. Happiness is a method, not a thing. It is a talent, not a goal.

43. Some people think that persistence will make us stronger, but sometimes letting go will also.

44. Fate is the excuse of the weak, and luck is the humility of the strong.

45. To fully understand another person, one must probably have been in a similar situation, suffered similar pain, or had a similar awakening experience, and this is very rare.

O'Neill (1888-1953)

Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright, a representative writer of Expressionist literature, and the founder of American national drama. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. Important works include "Emperor Jones", "The Hairy Ape", "Beyond the Horizon", "Mourning", etc.

46. We are born broken, and we live to mend them.

47. If you tear a lie into pieces, those pieces are the truth.

48. Are you too cowardly to show off your pain as a matter of pride?

49. God gave people limited power but unlimited desires.

50. Happiness is like a pair of shoes, only you know whether they fit or not.

Eliot (1888-1965)

Thomas Eliot is the most influential poet in Britain in the 20th century. He is a classicist in literature and is known as "one of the youngest successors of Dante". Thomas Eliot expressed the spiritual disillusionment of a generation in the West and is considered an epoch-making work in modern Western literature. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "innovating modern poetry and being a pioneer with outstanding achievements".

51. If the meaning of tradition or "passion from generation to generation" is only blindly or meticulously following the style of the predecessors, then tradition is useless.

52. A lifetime of doing useful things, saying brave words, and desiring good things is enough.

53. What good is timing to those who do not know how to take advantage of it? An unfertilized egg will be washed away into waste by the waves of time.

54. In order to finally understand what you don’t understand, you must go through a path of ignorance. In order to possess something you never possessed, you must go through the path of deprivation. In order to get to where you are now, you had to go through a path that you were not on.

55. When a person is born into the world, it would be too bad if he could not make other people’s lives better, but make their lives worse.

Gide (1869-1951)

André Gide, a French writer, became a prolific writer in his early years. In 1947, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His representative works include "The Counterfeiter" and "If the Seed Never Dies".

56. Between my ideal and my habitat, there is a whole life.

57. The further away from you, the deeper I love you. Now I can't help but ask myself, is it happiness or the process towards happiness that I hope for?

58. For those who are looking for the truth, believe them; for those who have found the truth, doubt them.

59. Only those things that you feel are unique to you and cannot be found anywhere else are worthy of your attachment. Be eager but patient to mold yourself into someone irreplaceable.

60. To a good-hearted person, the very idea that a price must be paid is an insult. Kindness is not a decoration, but an expression of a beautiful heart.

Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian writer, was abroad in 1968 because his work "The First Circle" could not be published domestically. published, was expelled from the Writers' Association, and later won the 1970 Nobel Prize. He was later expelled from the country for publishing his masterpiece "The Gulag Archipelago" about totalitarianism. After his death, he was hailed as "the conscience of Russia".

61. If you always stare at the past, you will be blind in one eye; but if you forget history, you will be blind in both eyes.

62. How deep the suffering is, how high is the glory of mankind.

63. In addition to the right to know, people should also have the right not to know, and the latter is of much greater value. It means that noble souls do not have to be filled with nonsense and empty talk. Excessive information is an unnecessary burden on a person who lives a fulfilling life.

64. The world is being inundated with the shameless belief that power can do anything and justice can accomplish nothing.

65. If literature cannot become the breath of contemporary society, dare not convey the pain and fear of that society, and cannot issue timely warnings of dangers that threaten morality and society - such literature is not worthy of being literature. of.

Bergson (1859-1941)

Henri Bergson, a French philosopher, had beautiful writing and attractive thoughts. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. Since middle school, I have been interested in philosophy, psychology, and biology, especially literature. His writing style is unique and his expression is poetic. Representative works include "Theory of Creation and Evolution", "Research on Intuitive Consciousness", "Matter and Memory", etc.

66. Think like a doer and act like a thinker.

67. Vanity can hardly be said to be a vice, but all vices revolve around vanity and are nothing but means to satisfy vanity.

68. To survive, you must change, to change, you must grow, and to grow, you must constantly innovate yourself.

Seifert (1901 — 1986)

Jaroslav Seifert is the most important contemporary Czechoslovak poet. Seifert was awarded the title of "People's Artist" of Czechoslovakia in 1996. In 1984, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for showing "the indomitable image of human liberation".

69. Life is often like this. In a hurry, I lose myself in a hurry, just to keep moving forward and to extend myself. In the pursuit of innovation, many things are being forgotten.

70. If you hear a gentle sigh at this moment, please ignore it.

That's the sigh I make when I look back on the good old days. We were very happy at the time, but we didn’t know it.

Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner, one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature, a representative figure of stream-of-consciousness literature in the United States, 1949 Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his powerful and artistically unparalleled contribution to contemporary American fiction." The most representative work is "The Sound and the Fury".

71. When she is gone, half of the memories are gone; if I am gone, all the memories will be gone too. Yes, he thought, between sadness and nothingness I choose sadness.

72. None of us wants to believe that our pain is caused by ourselves. We all think that the world owes us that we cannot be happy; when we cannot be happy, we blame the person closest to us.

73. Don’t worry about surpassing your peers or predecessors, strive to surpass yourself.

74. We cannot be perfect, so I evaluate a person by how brilliantly he fails when doing impossible things.

75. No one can tell you what to do in order to survive. You know, this is loneliness. You have to deal with it alone, loneliness is like an electric charge, you can take a certain amount without losing it.

Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

Henrik Sienkiewicz, a 19th-century Polish critical realist writer. His representative works include the correspondence collection "Letter from Traveling in America", the historical novel trilogy "Fire and Sword", "Torrent" and "Mr. Volodyovsky"; the historical novel "Knights of the Crusader". He is a realist writer with democratic and patriotic ideas, and is known as the "Master of Polish Language". Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.

76. I laugh because life is not worth facing with tears.

77. Although marble is precious, it is nothing in itself. It has real value only when the sculptor turns it into a masterpiece.

Naipaul (1932-)

V. Sue Naipaul, West Indian writer, travel writer, and social critic. His novels depict individuals in various cultures who are alienated from society and who spend their lives searching for their own identity. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

78. When a person starts to make fun of his career, it is difficult to know whether he is laughing or crying.

79. The world is like this. Those who are insignificant, those who allow themselves to become insignificant, have no place in this world.

80. After I am destined to leave here forever, everything remains the same as before, leaving no trace of my departure.

Kenzaburo Oe (1935—)

Kenzaburo Oe, a famous Japanese novelist. When he officially entered the literary world in 1957, he won praises such as "Student Writer" and "Kawabata Yasunari the Second". He is the author of works and literary theories such as "Notes on Hiroshima", "As a Contemporaneous Person" and "Methods of Novel". Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.

81. If you feel that a book is really a good book, then please read it again after a while, and each time, use a different colored pen to underline it and write down it in the blank space. Get rid of mixed feelings while reading. This is a helpful way to read.

82. Why do you study? Is it just to kill time? If you read a page and then forget it, are you just trying to train your forgetfulness?

Prudhomme (1839-1907)

Sully Prudhomme was the first talented French writer known for his poetry. Sully Prudhomme was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. As Prudhomme moved from lyric poetry to philosophical poetry and finally to prose, he believed that he was moving towards more meaningful work.

83. Few women have enough morals and thoughts to make people forget their beauty.

84. You cannot be called unhappy while you are alive.

85. There is a reliable standard for love, which is the time people devote.

Neruda (1904-1973)

Pablo Neruda, a famous contemporary Chilean poet. In 1924, he published his famous work "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair", and has since entered the Chilean poetry scene. His poetry not only inherited the tradition of Spanish national poetry, but also was influenced by French modernist poetry such as Baudelaire; his early collection of love poems "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" is considered to be his most famous One of the works. He won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.

86. When the gorgeous leaves fall, the veins of life are clearly visible.

87. Love is too short, but forgetting is too long.

88. I like that you are silent, as if you have disappeared. You hear me from afar, but my voice cannot reach you.

Yeats (1865-1939)

Also translated as "Yeats", "Yates", Irish poet, playwright and essayist, and a famous mystic. Yeats's poetry was influenced by romanticism, aestheticism, mysticism, symbolism and metaphysical poetry, and evolved its unique style. However, after entering his forties, under the influence of modernist poet Ezra Pound and others, Yeats's creative style underwent a relatively drastic change, becoming closer to modernism.

89. When you are old, your hair is gray, you are sleepy, and you are taking a nap by the fire, please take down this poem and read it slowly.

90. When we were young, we loved each other but didn’t know it.

Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)

Kawabata Yasunari, a Japanese New Sensationist writer and a famous novelist. He wrote more than 100 novels in his life, more short and medium stories than full-length novels. He became famous for his novel "The Dancing Girl of Izu". Representative works include "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "Thousand Cranes", "Ancient Capital" and "Sleeping Beauty". He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968 and was the first Japanese writer to win the award.

91. I woke up at four in the morning and found that Haitang was still awake. If a flower is beautiful, then sometimes I can't help but think: "Live!"

92. When I have you, whether I am buying a tie in the department store or putting away a fish in the kitchen , I feel happy. Love nourishes me like a warm current. When I lose you, even facing the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, I have no interest.

93. Survival itself is a futile effort.

94. Elegance means discovering the beauty of existence and feeling the beauty that has been discovered.

95. Time flows through everyone in the same way, but everyone spends time in different ways.

Mo Yan (1955 —)

Mo Yan is a famous contemporary Chinese writer. Li Yan, who emerged in the mid-1980s with his rural works, is full of complex emotions of "nostalgia" and "resentment for hometown" and is classified as a writer of "root-seeking literature". In 2012, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work integrating folktales, history and contemporary society through hallucinatory realism.

96. The most taboo thing in the world is to be perfect. Look at the moon in the sky. Once it is full, it will soon become tired of it; once the fruit on the tree is ripe, it will soon be To fall. There must always be a little bit of something missing in everything to be able to persevere.

97. The world is like a book, pages are turned over. People should look forward and avoid digging into history.

98. This is how everything in the world is, the little bad guys are hated by others, and the big bad guys are admired by others.

99. Eagles are also interested in corpses. They are also carrion eaters, but they do not join the crows and maintain a hypocritical and arrogant attitude.

100. For many things in the world, the interest in pursuing time is always stronger than the interest in enjoying time.

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